The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-27
Labor Notes.


Labor is in demand in nearly all crafts
Armour is building packing-house in Chica.
go to cover five acres.
Brick works are to be established this fall and
winter in the West and South.
Thirty electrical roads now being built will be
running before winter shall have set in.
All the best fire brick used in Alabama il
taken from Pennsylvania and Maryland.
Nor thwestern Pennsylvania expects to have
the largest plate glass works in the world
The Knights of Labor are quietly extending
their organization. especially in the West
Large works to be established at Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, to erect electric light plants.
The lumber manufacturers have orders for all
the stock they can deliver within the next thirty
days
The 'Iargest" tile and pottery works ever
built in this country are talked of at Austin,
MINI.
Brick making will be pushed more actively on
account of the pressure for supplies in the early
spring
A device for utilizing the power of Niagara
river has been sold in two counties bordering
the river for $62, 500
Coal operators in the West are very stubborn
in their opposition to the semi monthly pay
ments demanded by law.
The projection of new cotton and wooden mills
indicates that the textile industry is not so bad
off as some jobbers put it.
Builders say there will be much more work
done next winter than usual, especially in alter
atoms, exterior and interior.
The largest elevator in the world is to be
built Goose island, Chicago The dimensions
will be 475x250, and 225 feet high.
The builders will first feel the decline in ACTIVE
ity. A vast amount of work is under CONTRACTS
to be finished by Oct 10 and Nov /.
So far as can be safely guessed at the con-
structlon of small houses building in about q
dozen of the larger cities is 10 per cent beyond
last year.
The largest smelling and reduction works in
he ntryyQ r., hsaa ctoA Mt Eoct
81, UOO, 600. Labor Is snufing fresh opportuni-
ties there.
The leading lights in the South are advising
all Southern young men who want to stand in
the front rank of the worlds leaders to go into
manufacturing.
man shoveling dirt with shovel one pound
heavier than it need be. will lift 5000 pounds
moro in day of ten hours than he would with
a shovel one pound lighter.
The erection of tenement houses for employees
is now quite common thing in the
tons. The houses we'll built, roomy, and
rent cheap or sell on reasonable terms
The distribution of merchandise and manu-
factured products is now going on at a greater
rate than it was twelve months ago. The in
crease has been estimated at 10 per cent
Mechanics who work in lead are often driven
into consumption. A life-saving resprator has
been introduced in California and other places
West that saves the workmen very much.
The question as to what is the exact mechan-
ical equivalent of heat has long puzzled encin-
eeIs The latest experiments show that one
pound of water raised 10 F. is equal to one
pound lifted 100 feet.
The boot and shoe manufacturers are selling
large supplies to lumbermen and miners in the
Northwest. Some manufacturers have with
drawn their statesmen from the road. and will
try the old plan of doing business
Three valuable coal beds in the West, known
as the Gunnison deposits. cover LOCO square
miles, and contain hgnites bituminous and
anthracite varieties Railroad. mining and
manufacturing interests are opening up these
fields.
German plumbers melt the frost out of the
ground by spreading a layer of quicklime, over
which is put layer OF snow. and these layers
are repeated several times, according to the
tent of the frost, Next morning the ground is
ready for pick and shovel.
Much interest has been aroused among engin-
GERS and others to prevent the waste of fuel in
steam raising. New devices common.
Papers are read before societies the subject
Experiments are made by all sorts of asplrants
for wealth and fame, but nothing has yet como
within the charmed circle of practcability.
The extent to which organized labor actu-
ally advance the value of labor what labor
would bring without such organization lie a sub
ject which has received but little attention from
employers or employed. Labor answers by re-
ferring to all the numerous advances that have
been made. which 1t counts SO much gain.
Employers deduct increased cost of rent and liv-
ing and increased expenditure induced by
higher wages The gain while something, is
less than appears be account of off setting
causes.